2. What is the basketball
Basketball is played in the modern Olympics since Berlin 1936. In St.
Louis in 1904, appeared as a sport display. The women's tournament
debuted in Montreal in 1976.
The biggest winners are the United States, creators of the sport, with
14 of the 18 gold medals in the male, and 7 of 10 in the female.
Basketball was one of the first sports to accept the presence of
professionals, although the United States only began to send
athletes in the NBA in 1992.
3. the best basketball 10
Order Country
1 USA Estados Unidos 21 2 3 26
2 URS União Soviética 4 4 4 12
3 YUG Iugoslávia 1 5 2 8
4 ARG Argentina 1 0 1 2
5
EUN Equipa Unificada
* 1 0 0 1
6 AUS Austrália 0 3 2 5
7 ESP Espanha 0 3 0 3
8 FRA França 0 3 0 3
9 ITA Itália 0 2 0 2
10 BRA Brasil 0 1 4 5
- total
28 23 16 67
*Was the name used by athletes and sports teams that made
up the Commonwealth of Independent States, a group that
brought together the former republics of the Soviet Union in
the two editions of the Olympic Games that took place in 1992,
the winter in Albertville, France, and the summer in Barcelona1
, Spain. Twelve former Soviet republics formed the Unified
Team of Barcelona Games, while only six were part of the team
for the Games in Albertville2.
4. Constituents of the Unified Team
Summer Games in Barcelona:
ARM Armênia
AZE Azerbaijão
BLR Bielorrússia
GEO Geórgia
KAZ Cazaquistão
KGZ Quirguistão
MDA Moldávia
RUS Rússia
TJK Tajiquistão
TKM Turcomenistão
UKR Ucrânia
UZB Uzbequistão
5. Constituents of the Unified Team
Winter Games in Albertville:
KAZ Cazaquistão
RUS Rússia
UKR Ucrânia
UZB Uzbequistão
BLR Bielorrússia
ARM Armênia